My complete work for 36 Days of Type 2023.
Work I did while working at Laser Rays Detroit, a laser cutting and CNC service company in Detroit Michigan.
I created icons and assets for company branding and social media, including posts, GIFS, banners, stories, and carousels. I worked with 3D artists to compose elements and assist with design. I shot, edited , and voiced the company’s website video.
3D renders created by Alex Delker
A collection of coasters I designed and screen printed while bartending at Temple Bar Detroit. Each coaster was designed and printed weekly and only available on Monday nights during my shift. Each coaster was limited to 15 prints. Throughout the 52 weeks, I took into account holidays, Detroit centric events, and Temple Bar history to create timely themed imagery.
Pushing the project further, a 18”x24” two color, screen printed poster was produced showcasing the collection in its entirety, as well as a screen printed minature box set of Temple Bar that housed a complete collection of coasters.
The project culminated in a Coaster/Poster Show, held at Temple Bar, showcasing framed versions of each coaster, signed and dated, the coaster poster, and a complete boxset.
This booklet was designed and produced for Clothes Keeping, a workshop put on and held at BORO Detroit. The booklet showcases helpful tips on caring for and repairing everyday clothing.
Thirty books were produced and handed out to attendees.
FriendlyFire is a fictional contemporary art show hosted at the Power Station of Art that focuses on two political pop artists, David Cerney and Joe Black. The aesthetics of the poster and gallery booklet are meant to capture the chaotic, sensory overload, razzle dazzle elements of war, while also attracting onlookers with fun colors, shapes, and patterns.
A variation of this poster was shown in the 2014 Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee.
Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels, a non-profit catering to the home bound, requested a complete redesign of its identity. A new logo was created which set the basis for the rest of the identity. The rebranding effort included website mock ups, complete stationary package including business card, letterhead, and envelope, promotional materials, and a full van wrap graphic. A completely custom typeface family was also created for this project, entitled YMOW.
What started out as a joke in the office, - "I will make a calendar that folds into a pterodactyl," - became an idea, a personal challenge, and a reality.
The idea was to create a calendar that was not just pleasing to look at and read, but also a calendar that the user could interact with and become part of the experience. The challenge was to create a calendar that did not lack functionality due to design. The reality is that the Eastern Michigan Universities Fall 2014 Gallery Calendar is a calendar, a poster, and a sculpture.
The calendar is fully functional as both a standard fold-down calendar, and a custom three dimensional desktop calendar. When unfolded, one side can be read as the calendar and list of events, while the other side can be displayed as a poster. When constructed, one variation can be read as a calendar with interactive list of events, while the other variation can be displayed as a sculptural representation of a watertower.
These works are my exploration into making a three-dimensional poster. A poster is a flat image that occupies a space often announcing or advertising a message. Posters are also produced in large quantities in order to be displayed in public to spread a message to the masses.
For this work, I challenged the idea of what a poster is. How do you change the definition of a poster while simultaneously being defined as poster? I made my posters three-dimensional. These posters not only occupy and infiltrate a space because they're displayed next to one another, but they also occupy a space as objects all their own. These posters state a message, a message that may not be seen in an instant, but a message that speaks about the complete work itself. These posters are complex but are easily mass produced for mass infiltration.
These two posters are visual representations of two different songs. The posters are composed of nine aspects of sound: attack and decay, duration, location, loudness, order, pitch, rate of change, register, and timbre.
A hand pulled poster for my solo show "A Couple Cool Things."
These objects were an experimentation of applying graphic design principles, practices, and aesthetics to fabrication and sculpture. Each object is inspired by a letter of the English alphabet combined with an object that I saw in my day-to-day activities. As a hybrid of these two things, the new objects produced carry many graphic qualities, such as color, and form.
These works focus on experimenting with ideas of 2D and 3D. Graphic design is synonymous with two-dimensional work, an assumption I wanted to challenge. The material choice and imagery played a pivotal role in the creation of these rookie cards. Baseball cards include both photographic and illustrative elements, making them very dynamic. The materials used have qualities that balance on the edge of 2D and 3D.
Dangerous Minds was a show at Eastern Michigan University that showcased the art of local high school students. A complete package was designed, including a hand pulled silkscreen poster, postcard, and gallery wall vinyl.
This poster comments on the stray dog dilemma in Detroit. By exploring and experimenting with the use of three dimensional type treatments, and the organization of large amounts of information, this poster focuses on typographic design. The poster also acted as a fold-down booklet, focusing on varying compositions within the spreads. A screen print overlay was printed overtop. Ultimately the posters were wheat-pasted in Detroit.
This project was published on Desktop Magazine.
Two hand-pulled silk-screened posters showcased in my solo show, "A Couple Cool Things." Each poster focuses on the varying optical colors created with two colors and different patterns.
A collection of various logos.
